Dr Iain Banks

  • Senior Lecturer in in History/Battlefield Archaeology (History)

telephone: 01413302420
email: Iain.Banks@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 406, 10 University Gdns, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707

Research interests

Dr Iain Banks is the Executive Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology. He has worked on battlefield projects across the UK, Europe and Africa, both as a geophysicist and excavator. He plays an active part in the teaching of the MLitt in Battlefield and Conflict Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. His main interests in the subject are the Prehistory and Anthropology of Warfare and Warfare in the Twentieth Century.

Publications

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Number of items: 33.

2024

Herva, Vesa-Pekka, Moshenska, Gabriel, Paphitis, Tina, Äikäs, Tiina, Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707, Nurmi, Risto, Seitsonen, Oula and Thomas, Suzie (2024) Weird quantities: characterising monstrous landscapes of extraction in the Anthropocene. Time and Mind, (doi: 10.1080/1751696x.2024.2353748) (Early Online Publication)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2024) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 18(2-3), pp. 67-70. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2023.2318931)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2024) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 19(1), pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2024.2336375)

2022

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2022) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 16(3), pp. 115-118. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2021.2132756)

2020

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2020) “For You, The War is Over? Not a Chance!” captivity and escape at Cultybraggan Prisoner of War camp, Comrie, Perthshire. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(1), pp. 32-64. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1853365)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2020) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(3), pp. 171-175. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1985913)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2020) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(2), pp. 168-170. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1925519)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2020) Editorial JCA 14.2&3. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 14(2-3), pp. 79-82. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2019.1737455)

2019

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2019) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 13(2), pp. 77-79. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2018.1582995)

Thomas, Suzie and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2019) Asset, burden, Cultybraggan. Community site ownership in a Scottish village. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 6(1), pp. 51-68. (doi: 10.1080/20518196.2018.1548223)

2018

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707, Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika and Seitsonen, Oula (2018) Public engagements with Laplands dark heritage: community archaeology in Finnish Lapland. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 5(2), pp. 128-137. (doi: 10.1080/20518196.2017.1383672)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2018) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 13(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2018.1551981)

2016

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 and Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 (2016) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 11(2-3), pp. 59-60. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2017.1366399)

2014

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2014) Digging in the dark: the underground war on the Western Front in WWI. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 9(3), pp. 156-178. (doi: 10.1179/1574077314Z.00000000038)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 and Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 (2014) Beyond recall: searching for the remains of a British secret weapon of World War I. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 9(3), pp. 119-155. (doi: 10.1179/1574077314Z.00000000037)

2012

Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2012) Geophysics and the great escape. Leading Edge, 31(8), pp. 916-920. (doi: 10.1190/tle31080916.1)

2011

Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 and Pollard, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 (2011) Protecting a bloodstained history: battlefield conservation in Scotland. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 6(2), pp. 124-145. (doi: 10.1179/157407811X13027741134148)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2011) Control or repression: contrasting a prisoner of war camp and a work camp from World War Two. In: Myers, Adrian and Moshenska, Gabriel (eds.) Archaeologies of Internment. Series: One world archaeology. Springer: New York, USA, pp. 111-128. ISBN 9781441996664 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9666-4_7)

2010

Pollard, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2010) Now the wars are over: The past, present and future of Scottish battlefields. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 14(3), pp. 414-441. (doi: 10.1007/s10761-010-0117-7)

2009

Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707, Duffy, P.R.J. and MacGregor, G. (2009) Archaeology of landscape change in South-West Scotland, 6000 bc – ad 1400: excavations at William Grant and Sons distillery, Girvan. Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, 32, pp. 1-45.

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2009) Battlefield archaeology. Archaeologist, 74, pp. 10-11.

2008

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2008) The archaeology of the Siege of Leith, 1560. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 4(1-2), pp. 109-137. (doi: 10.1163/157407808X382782)

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (Eds.) (2008) Bastions and barbed wire. Koninklijke Brill NV: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789004173606

Pollard, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2008) Archaeological investigation of military sites on Inchkeith Island. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 4(1-2), pp. 109-136. (doi: 10.1163/157407808X382782)

Pollard, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124, Lelong, O., MacKinnon, G., Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 and Barton, P. (2008) Pheasant Wood Fromelles: Report on Evaluation of WWI Mass Graves. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.

2007

Pollard, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124, Barton, P. and Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2007) Pheasant Wood, Fromelles: Evaluation of Possible Mass Graves. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.

2006

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2006) War and Sacrifice: Studies in the archaeology of Conflict. Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden. ISBN 9789004154582

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707, Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Poller, Tessa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8029-8908 (2006) Leith Open Spaces Project (Leith siege works) Geophysics. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.

2005

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124, Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707, Arthur, John, Clark, Jane and Oliver, Neil (2005) The survey and excavation of the Anglo-Zulu war fort at Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, pp. 133-180. (doi: 10.1163/157407705774929015)

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2005) Past Tense: Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004149762

2004

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 (2004) Lithics report. In: Banks, Iain (ed.) Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, pp. 52-53.

1996

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124, Atkinson, John and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (1996) It is the technical side of the work which is my stumbling block: a shell midden site on Risga reconsidered. In: Pollard, Tony and Morrison, Alex (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Scotland. Series: Dalrymple monograph (3). Edinburgh University Press for the University of Glasgow: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748606771

1993

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124, Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 and Atkinson, John (1993) Excavations at Ellisland Farm, Dumfries. Project Report. Templewood.

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Number of items: 33.

Articles

Herva, Vesa-Pekka, Moshenska, Gabriel, Paphitis, Tina, Äikäs, Tiina, Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707, Nurmi, Risto, Seitsonen, Oula and Thomas, Suzie (2024) Weird quantities: characterising monstrous landscapes of extraction in the Anthropocene. Time and Mind, (doi: 10.1080/1751696x.2024.2353748) (Early Online Publication)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2024) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 18(2-3), pp. 67-70. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2023.2318931)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2024) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 19(1), pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2024.2336375)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2022) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 16(3), pp. 115-118. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2021.2132756)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2020) “For You, The War is Over? Not a Chance!” captivity and escape at Cultybraggan Prisoner of War camp, Comrie, Perthshire. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(1), pp. 32-64. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1853365)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2020) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(3), pp. 171-175. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1985913)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2020) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 15(2), pp. 168-170. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2020.1925519)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2020) Editorial JCA 14.2&3. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 14(2-3), pp. 79-82. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2019.1737455)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2019) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 13(2), pp. 77-79. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2018.1582995)

Thomas, Suzie and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2019) Asset, burden, Cultybraggan. Community site ownership in a Scottish village. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 6(1), pp. 51-68. (doi: 10.1080/20518196.2018.1548223)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707, Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika and Seitsonen, Oula (2018) Public engagements with Laplands dark heritage: community archaeology in Finnish Lapland. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 5(2), pp. 128-137. (doi: 10.1080/20518196.2017.1383672)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2018) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 13(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2018.1551981)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 and Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 (2016) Editorial. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 11(2-3), pp. 59-60. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2017.1366399)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2014) Digging in the dark: the underground war on the Western Front in WWI. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 9(3), pp. 156-178. (doi: 10.1179/1574077314Z.00000000038)

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 and Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 (2014) Beyond recall: searching for the remains of a British secret weapon of World War I. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 9(3), pp. 119-155. (doi: 10.1179/1574077314Z.00000000037)

Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2012) Geophysics and the great escape. Leading Edge, 31(8), pp. 916-920. (doi: 10.1190/tle31080916.1)

Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 and Pollard, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 (2011) Protecting a bloodstained history: battlefield conservation in Scotland. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 6(2), pp. 124-145. (doi: 10.1179/157407811X13027741134148)

Pollard, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2010) Now the wars are over: The past, present and future of Scottish battlefields. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 14(3), pp. 414-441. (doi: 10.1007/s10761-010-0117-7)

Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707, Duffy, P.R.J. and MacGregor, G. (2009) Archaeology of landscape change in South-West Scotland, 6000 bc – ad 1400: excavations at William Grant and Sons distillery, Girvan. Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, 32, pp. 1-45.

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2009) Battlefield archaeology. Archaeologist, 74, pp. 10-11.

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2008) The archaeology of the Siege of Leith, 1560. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 4(1-2), pp. 109-137. (doi: 10.1163/157407808X382782)

Pollard, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2008) Archaeological investigation of military sites on Inchkeith Island. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 4(1-2), pp. 109-136. (doi: 10.1163/157407808X382782)

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124, Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707, Arthur, John, Clark, Jane and Oliver, Neil (2005) The survey and excavation of the Anglo-Zulu war fort at Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, pp. 133-180. (doi: 10.1163/157407705774929015)

Books

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2006) War and Sacrifice: Studies in the archaeology of Conflict. Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden. ISBN 9789004154582

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2005) Past Tense: Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004149762

Book Sections

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2011) Control or repression: contrasting a prisoner of war camp and a work camp from World War Two. In: Myers, Adrian and Moshenska, Gabriel (eds.) Archaeologies of Internment. Series: One world archaeology. Springer: New York, USA, pp. 111-128. ISBN 9781441996664 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9666-4_7)

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 (2004) Lithics report. In: Banks, Iain (ed.) Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, pp. 52-53.

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124, Atkinson, John and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (1996) It is the technical side of the work which is my stumbling block: a shell midden site on Risga reconsidered. In: Pollard, Tony and Morrison, Alex (eds.) The Early Prehistory of Scotland. Series: Dalrymple monograph (3). Edinburgh University Press for the University of Glasgow: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748606771

Edited Books

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (Eds.) (2008) Bastions and barbed wire. Koninklijke Brill NV: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789004173606

Research Reports or Papers

Pollard, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124, Lelong, O., MacKinnon, G., Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 and Barton, P. (2008) Pheasant Wood Fromelles: Report on Evaluation of WWI Mass Graves. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.

Pollard, T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124, Barton, P. and Banks, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 (2007) Pheasant Wood, Fromelles: Evaluation of Possible Mass Graves. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.

Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707, Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124 and Poller, Tessa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8029-8908 (2006) Leith Open Spaces Project (Leith siege works) Geophysics. Project Report. Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.

Pollard, Tony ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-9124, Banks, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-6707 and Atkinson, John (1993) Excavations at Ellisland Farm, Dumfries. Project Report. Templewood.

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